Crime Statistics for Highbury, London, Islington, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Highbury in August 2024. There were a total of 1857 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	690
Violent Crime	463
Public Order	115
Theft From The Person	100
Burglary	90
Vehicle Crime	88
Criminal Damage Arson	80
Other Theft	60
Drugs	60
Robbery	43
Shoplifting	36
Other Crime	16
Bicycle Theft	12
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	1857

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Highbury. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Highbury

We've taken the ten nearest places to Highbury and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Highbury has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Canonbury (0.88 miles)	3120
Barnsbury (0.88 miles)	2373
Camden Town (1.39 miles)	1930
Highbury	1820
Islington (0.62 miles)	1349
Haggerston (1.76 miles)	1319
Lower Holloway (0.62 miles)	1260
Tufnell Park (1.24 miles)	1152
Stoke Newington (1.39 miles)	937
Finsbury Park (0.88 miles)	120

Where are the most violent places near Highbury?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Highbury and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Canonbury	654
Haggerston	576
Highbury	463
Barnsbury	438
Camden Town	322
Islington	300
Lower Holloway	279
Stoke Newington	257
Tufnell Park	231
Finsbury Park	112

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Highbury?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Highbury to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Highbury compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Highbury and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Highbury is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	St George's	80
2	Canonbury	80
3	St Mary's	79
4	Brownswood	75
5	St Pancras and Somers Town	75
6	Highbury East	74
7	Holloway	73
8	Cantelowes	72
9	Caledonian	69
10	Highbury West	64
11	Barnsbury	64

Which road in Highbury has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Highbury with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.